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Recent Progress in Agricultural and Horticultural Science in the United Kingdom.

By V. E. WILKINS, B.Sc.

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This book shows what research is doing for the farmer and gardener, and how scientists throughout the United Kingdom are grappling with vital problems connected with the supply of food for man and beast. The numerous technical investigations are linked together and described in clear and interesting style, and, besides being eminently readable, the account is scientifically accurate. Thirty chapters cover, between them, the whole field of agricultural and horticultural investigation, from experiments on the subtler physical and chemical properties of the soil, to research into animal nutrition and disease and into the economic side of the agricultural industry. The book is well illustrated.

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Report of the British Guiana Commission.

Personnel of the Commission:

Mr. R. Roy WILSON, M.P. (Conservative) (Chairman).

MR. H. SNELL, M.P. (Labour).

MR. R. R. SEDGWICK (Colonial Office) (Secretary).

APPENDIX II. THE NORTH-WEST DISTRICT. EXTRACT FROM THE
REPORT OF MR. G. F. KEATINGE, C.I.E., I.C.S. (retired), ON THE
SCHEME FOR INDIAN EMIGRATION TO BRITISH GUIANA

66

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE L. S. AMERY, M.P.,
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.

CHAPTER I.

Introduction.

We were appointed by you in October, 1926, as a Commission to visit British Guiana "To consider and report on the economic condition of the Colony, the causes which have hitherto retarded and the measures which could be taken to promote development, and any facts which they may consider to have a bearing on the above matters."

We left England on the "Samaria " on the 16th October, and, travelling via New York, Grenada and Trinidad, reached Georgetown, British Guiana, on the 16th November. We left Georgetown for England on the 17th December, and arrived back in London on the 4th January, 1927. The details of our itinerary are given in the diary which forms an appendix* to this Report.

We desire to express our thanks to the Governor of the Colony, His Excellency Sir Cecil Rodwell, K.C.M.G., and the elected members of the Court of Policy and the Combined Court for the valuable assistance they unstintingly gave to the Commission; to the heads of departments, to whom we are indebted for memoranda and information of the fullest and most useful kind; to the numerous unofficial associations and the deputations in outlying districts who helped us greatly by their knowledge of local conditions; in fact to all sections of the community for their readiness to facilitate our work in every way possible and to answer the many enquiries which we made. We are under a special obligation to Mr. M. B. Laing, of the Colonial Secretariat, who was responsible for arranging our programme and for piloting us in our journeys about the Colony and contributed in no small degree to the amenities, unofficial as well as official, of our mission. We are also most grateful for the hospitality offered to us and for the excellent arrangements made by the Government both while we were living in Georgetown and on our visits to other parts of the Colony.

We desire, as well, to pay a more impersonal tribute to that very important institution, the climate. Mr. Ormsby-Gore has recently commented on the surprising difference between climatic conditions in West Africa and British Guiana, though

Appendix I, p. 65. † Cmd. 2744 (p. 60).

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